How to Use lay bare in a Sentence

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• The Russians dumped some 450 bodies into the crude graves that now lay bare.
  — Martin Kuz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• On Sunday, slabs lay bare on the ground where houses once stood along the streets of Dawson Springs.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• Even food has become hard to come by as some grocery store shelves lay bare.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2021
• That said, bear markets can often, well, lay bare what needs to change in your portfolio.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 5 July 2022
• The committee can lay bare the black heart of hate groups—their thirst for blood, and their attempts to manipulate the public.
  — Maya Wiley, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• Besides, the contest lay bare the mettle of the military, if only in sporting terms.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• In his suit, Flores, who is Black, argues that the numbers lay bare that there is a lack of diversity in these roles.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
• The move would lay bare the deep division with the GOP after the party’s underwhelming results in the midterm elections.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2022
• The collection is paired with an exhibition of helpful hacks that lay bare the cutting process of each garment.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 8 June 2022
• That snap would lay bare the radar and cameras that make up a new system called terrain-relative navigation.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021
• While the pandemic has kept many at home instead of heading into the office for work, streets downtown lay bare by Thursday, eerily silent.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2021
• White reaches his own conclusion about who dunnit, but the real interest of his book is his use of the crime and especially the cover-up to lay bare the forces at work in the early days of Stanford.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
• Two years ago, the DEA arrested a Mexican general, hoping to lay bare the high-level corruption at the heart of organized crime.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• The numbers from the pandemic lay bare our biggest uncertainty: the problem of collective will.
  — Katherine S. Xue, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2021
• In my research on Sade and the scroll, one explanation for its creation stood out: Sade, say some experts, endeavored to lay bare mankind’s most cruel and twisted desires.
  — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• While robust air defense on both sides has limited the use of air power in the war, the documents lay bare the consequences of what could happen if Ukraine’s ability is eroded.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
• His charging documents also seem to lay bare some of the challenges for law enforcement in making cases from chaotic mass shootings.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
• The messages once again lay bare the propagandistic synergy between the conservative network and the Trump White House.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
• Encampments like the one in the underpass lay bare decades of calamitous decisions by planners, politicians and health and housing authorities.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• Midterm results will place into sharp relief how the White House, Democrats and Republicans are likely to fare over the next two years and lay bare the terrain presidential candidates will have to navigate.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
• Records from Metro and federal agencies lay bare how crucial federal commuting dollars are to the transit agency.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• These artists and writers share an investment in repeatedly returning to the past to see what unexpected results each embarkation will lay bare.
  — Tahneer Oksman, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The findings lay bare how even a highly contagious variant like Omicron couldn’t overcome the pervasive and systemic inequities of public health in a massive county like Los Angeles.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Through unsettling sounds and an idyllic music video that devolves into something frightening, TXT lay bare a horror rarely spoken of: watching a friendship fade before your eyes.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2020
• But their uncanny ability to lay bare the devastation of heartbreak and romantic breakups while giving it earworm hooks was their superpower.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• The holiday season will lay bare inequalities in the economic recovery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The two cases are among hundreds that lay bare a long-standing but little-known practice that permits service members facing criminal charges to circumvent trial by being discharged from the military.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• The findings lay bare how social and economic inequality — driven in large part by historic and ongoing racist policies and practices — leaves millions at a disadvantage as the climate crisis heats up.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• The power of the series lies not only in Frazier’s willingness to lay bare the complexities of these relationships but in her drive to expose the ruin that industrial pollution inflicted on their bodies.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• Snell's experiences lay bare a systemic exclusion of disabled people that has existed in the fashion industry since its inception.
  — Lottie Jackson, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021

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